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Which GP practice is best for you?

Tell us your area and what matters to you. We show the area’s practices in the order that suits you, grouped by how they compare with England, and explain why.

Your council area, for example Leeds or Camden. Not sure? Search by postcode: every practice page names its area.

Step 2 of 2. What matters to you?

Tap what matters most. The star marks what matters most of all. If you pick nothing, we order by the Practice Grade.

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  • For you if you need care often, for example with a long-term condition. Seeing the same GP or nurse weighs the most, and the wait counts too. Under each practice you also see how many patients have a professional they prefer, whether they knew the next step, and how soon routine appointments were booked.

GP practices in Westmorland and Furness

34 practices, in groups by their label, which comes from the Practice Grade and its margin of error, never from your choices. Within each group, the practice that fits the Practice Grade best comes first. There are no places: practices next to each other are often within each other’s margin of error.

Clearly above the England average (23)

Their Practice Grade is above England’s by more than its margin of error.

  1. Glenridding Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 92.3 to 97.7, 93 survey answers
  2. Windermere Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 90.4 to 94.8, 120 survey answers
  3. Haverthwaite Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 87.6 to 92.5, 125 survey answers
  4. Alston Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 87.5 to 91.7, 111 survey answers
  5. Ambleside Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 85.5 to 92.7, 116 survey answers
  6. Lunesdale Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 86.1 to 91.6, 117 survey answers
  7. Captain French Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 83.5 to 91.5, 121 survey answers
  8. Appleby Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 84.7 to 90.6, 110 survey answers
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  1. Cartmel Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 85.5 to 90.0, 103 survey answers
  2. Shap Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 85.4 to 89.9, 93 survey answers
  3. Abbey Road Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 83.9 to 90.7, 126 survey answers
  4. Nutwood Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 82.2 to 89.3, 115 survey answers
  5. Sedbergh Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 82.0 to 89.1, 110 survey answers
  6. Atkinson Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 79.3 to 88.0, 110 survey answers
  7. Kirkoswald Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 81.3 to 86.3, 103 survey answers
  8. Station House Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 76.3 to 87.8, 111 survey answers
  9. Burnett Edgar Medical Ctr
    Practice Grade
    likely range 80.0 to 85.1, 128 survey answers
  10. Ulverston Community Health Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 78.3 to 85.9, 106 survey answers
  11. Duddon Valley Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.5 to 84.4, 115 survey answers
  12. St. Mary's Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.5 to 84.7, 106 survey answers
  13. Court Thorn Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.1 to 84.1, 90 survey answers
  14. Temple Sowerby Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 77.4 to 84.1, 97 survey answers
  15. Upper Eden Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.6 to 84.5, 103 survey answers

Cannot be told apart from the England average (9)

Their Practice Grade cannot be told apart from England’s within its margin of error.

  1. Park View Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 75.7 to 87.1, 107 survey answers
  2. Dalton Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 73.8 to 85.9, 115 survey answers
  3. Birbeck Medical Group
    Practice Grade
    likely range 66.8 to 86.7, 111 survey answers
  4. The Lakes Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 70.7 to 84.8, 110 survey answers
  5. Ulverston Medical Practice
    Practice Grade
    likely range 66.8 to 83.5, 110 survey answers
  6. Duke Street Surgery
    Practice Grade
    likely range 69.3 to 82.0, 139 survey answers
  7. Bridgegate Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 67.9 to 82.7, 107 survey answers
  8. The James Cochrane Pract.
    Practice Grade
    likely range 52.8 to 85.4, 95 survey answers
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  1. Norwood Medical Centre
    Practice Grade
    likely range 55.2 to 77.0, 107 survey answers

Other practices in Westmorland and Furness

These have no label: some have too few survey answers to be graded, some are for one group of patients, and for others the margin of error does not support either label. They are listed A to Z, not by your choices. Each practice’s page has its figures.

Show all 2 practices, A to Z

Questions and answers

How do you put the practices in order?

You pick what matters to you, and we order the practices in your area by how their patients answered the GP Patient Survey questions on those things. A star counts twice. If you pick nothing, we order by the Practice Grade. The order is inside groups: practices clearly above the England average first, then practices that cannot be told apart from it, then the rest from A to Z.

Why are there no places or rank numbers?

Every survey figure has a margin of error, and practices next to each other in the list can often not be told apart. The order helps you find practices worth a closer look; the label says what the figures can support.

What if a practice has no figure for something I picked?

It is ordered on the things it has figures for, so a missing figure never counts against it. A practice with no figure for any of your choices comes last in its group. Too few answers to a question also means no figure.

Do my choices change a practice’s label?

No. The label comes from the Practice Grade and its margin of error, the same as on the practice’s own page. Your choices only change the order inside each group.

Where do the figures come from?

The Practice Grade comes from the 2026 GP Patient Survey and NHS appointment and phone data. The questions you pick come from the 2026 GP Patient Survey, run by Ipsos for NHS England, and how soon routine appointments were booked from NHS England’s Appointments in General Practice. Each practice page shows every figure with its source.

Sources

  • 2026 GP Patient Survey: https://www.gp-patient.co.uk/
  • Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence

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